Action League Now!

Action League Now!
Genre
Created by
Based onRuined toys
Starring
Narrated byScott Paulsen
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons
  • 4 (on KaBlam!)
  • 1 (as a package series)
No. of episodes
  • 51 (on KaBlam!)
  • 12 (as a package series)
(list of episodes)
Production
Production locationsPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Los Angeles, California
Running time
  • 4 minutes (individual shorts)
  • 24 minutes (package series)
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
ReleaseOctober 14, 1995 (1995-10-14) –
February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10)
Related
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Action League Now! (advertised as Action League Now!: The Series when packaged into a half-hour block) is a series of stop motion shorts that aired as part of both All That and KaBlam! on Nickelodeon.[1] It was made using "chuckimation", a combination of stop-frame animation and live-action shots where things are simply thrown ("chucked") or dropped into frame to simulate movement, and wiggled around to simulate talking.[2] The series follows the adventures of a superhero league, composed of various action figures, toys, and dolls. The show was created by Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb, and Albie Hecht.

Most episodes took place in the house of an unseen resident. Many of the characters were voiced by radio personalities from Pittsburgh.

From 1998 to February 10, 2002, Nickelodeon briefly ran Action League Now! shorts on their own, combined to fill a half-hour timeslot. These standalone edits are available on Paramount+.[3]

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 3. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 463. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. ^ Action League Now - Nickelodeon - Watch on Paramount Plus, 17 November 2001, retrieved 2023-01-18